The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike someone they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.